bsearch.c 1.6 KB

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  1. /*
  2. * A generic implementation of binary search for the Linux kernel
  3. *
  4. * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Ksplice, Inc.
  5. * Author: Tim Abbott <[email protected]>
  6. *
  7. * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  8. * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
  9. * published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
  10. */
  11. #include <linux/export.h>
  12. #include <linux/bsearch.h>
  13. #include <linux/kprobes.h>
  14. /*
  15. * bsearch - binary search an array of elements
  16. * @key: pointer to item being searched for
  17. * @base: pointer to first element to search
  18. * @num: number of elements
  19. * @size: size of each element
  20. * @cmp: pointer to comparison function
  21. *
  22. * This function does a binary search on the given array. The
  23. * contents of the array should already be in ascending sorted order
  24. * under the provided comparison function.
  25. *
  26. * Note that the key need not have the same type as the elements in
  27. * the array, e.g. key could be a string and the comparison function
  28. * could compare the string with the struct's name field. However, if
  29. * the key and elements in the array are of the same type, you can use
  30. * the same comparison function for both sort() and bsearch().
  31. */
  32. void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
  33. int (*cmp)(const void *key, const void *elt))
  34. {
  35. size_t start = 0, end = num;
  36. int result;
  37. while (start < end) {
  38. size_t mid = start + (end - start) / 2;
  39. result = cmp(key, base + mid * size);
  40. if (result < 0)
  41. end = mid;
  42. else if (result > 0)
  43. start = mid + 1;
  44. else
  45. return (void *)base + mid * size;
  46. }
  47. return NULL;
  48. }
  49. EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
  50. NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(bsearch);